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Reducing Global Poverty : The Case for Asset Accumulation

Paperback • 2007 • English

Reducing Global Poverty : The Case for Asset Accumulation

By Caroline O. N. Moser

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About the book

Defeating global poverty remains one of the most daunting challenges facing the international community. Income- and consumption-based strategies fall short of helping the world's poor climb out of poverty over the long term in the developing world and even in the United States. But asset-based approaches to development, such as small loans or insurance, can promote public policies that lead to increases in the capital assets of the poor-what the Ford Foundation calls ''the physical, financial, ...Show more

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9780815758570

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Washington : Brookings Institution Press

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Reducing Global Poverty : The Case for Asset Accumulation

Format

Paperback

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